salespeople

plural noun

sales·​peo·​ple ˈsālz-ˌpē-pəl How to pronounce salespeople (audio)
: persons employed to sell goods or services

Examples of salespeople in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Managing salespeople is all about the balance of flexibility versus control. Chris Mele, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024 Starting in 2021 Reddit brought on local community managers, translators, and salespeople to win over the world. Paresh Dave, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2024 By contrast advisors that earn sales loads or other commissions are, in the eyes of regulators, more akin to salespeople. Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 11 Oct. 2023 Franch said Carriage Services is continuing with a pilot of Sales Copilot, a Microsoft tool that uses Microsoft Azure OpenAI technology, to help salespeople with their jobs, extracting insight from company data. Steven Rosenbush, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2023 Organizations must resolve their CRM adoption issues with the right tools to extract information from this system of record and convert it into insights for salespeople. Venkat Malladi, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023 These contract terms have been applied to bank workers, salespeople, dog groomers, police officers, aestheticians, firefighters, mechanics, nurses, federal employees, electricians, roofers, social workers, paramedics, truckers, mortgage brokers, teachers and metal polishers. Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023 Which is to say, artisans first, salespeople second. Pilar Guzmán, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2023 This means that retail salespeople, cashiers and other low-wage workers — among whom a larger proportion are women — are particularly vulnerable. Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 26 July 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1876, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of salespeople was in 1876

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“Salespeople.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salespeople. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.

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salespeople

noun plural
sales·​peo·​ple -ˌpē-pəl How to pronounce salespeople (audio)
: people employed to sell goods or services

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